Detroit — For Western Michigan and Miami, perhaps the biggest key to Saturday’s Mid-American Conference championship game is not making it a bigger deal than it needs to be.

After all, that’s how both of these teams ultimately scratched and clawed their way to Ford Field — by staying in the present and focusing on the process and the task at hand, not worrying about possible outcomes.

Lance Taylor got reminded of that this week in a conversation with his old boss, Nick Saban, and other coaches.

“In these championship games, you have to play the game or play the play, not the occasion,” said Taylor, Western Michigan’s head coach, who has the Broncos in the MAC championship game for the first time since 2016, in just his third year on the job. “There advice was, ‘Be consistent. And help y

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